Abstrakty - geoinformatica
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Abstrakty - geoinformatica
GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 SpiS treści Artykuły Tadeusz CHROBAK Mapa a geoinformatyka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Adam LINSENBARTH Etapy rozwoju geoinformacji o terenach biblijnych – od iii tysiąclecia przed Chr. do czasów współczesnych . . . . . . . . 17 Ewa KRZYWICKA-BLUM Funkcje użytkowe współczesnych map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Dariusz GOTLIB Mapy mobilne – modelowanie prezentacji kartograficznej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Zbigniew SZCZERBOWSKI Geologiczne i górnicze uwarunkowania zaburzeń przebiegu geoidy na przykładzie rejonu Inowrocławia . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Robert OLSZEWSKI Rola i miejsce kartografii w kształtowaniu infrastruktury informacji przestrzennej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Zbigniew KASINA Analiza efektywności jednoczesnej inwersji pierwszych wstąpień fali refragowanej i czołowej – studium modelowe . . 67 contentS Papers Tadeusz CHROBAK The map and geoinformatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Adam LINSENBARTH Stages of geoinformation evolution related to the territories described in the Bible – from the 3rd millennium b.C. to modern times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Ewa KRZYWICKA-BLUM Usable functions of modern maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 Dariusz GOTLIB Mobile maps – modelling of cartographic presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Zbigniew SZCZERBOWSKI Geological and mining conditions of disturbances in the geoid course on the example of the region of Inowrocław . . .49 Robert OLSZEWSKI The role and place of cartography in the development of the spatial information infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 ZBIGNIEW KASINA The analysis of the effectiveness of simultaneous inversion of turning and head waves first breaks - model study . . . . .67 GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 TADEUSZ CHROBAK1 tHe MAp AnD GeoinForMAticS Key words: cartography, geoinformatics, computer science, geostatistics Abstract The article presents the relationship between cartography and geoinformatics affecting their scientific and socioeconomic development. MAPA A GEOINfORMATYKA Słowa kluczowe: kartografia, geoinformatyka, informatyka, geostatystyka Abstrakt W artykule przedstawiono wzajemne relacje kartografii i geoinformatyki mające wpływ na ich rozwój naukowy i społeczno-gospodarczy. 1. introduction In August 1995 in Barcelona, the General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) approved the definition of cartography as a science dealing with the conception, production, dissemination and study of maps. The development of automation, information technology and telecommunication is the beginning of the new technology at work on the acquisition, processing and visualization. Its beginning dates back to 1963, 1 when the first cadastral system, a computerized system in which maps constituted an integral part, was developed in Canada. The concept of geoinformatics as a science (GI - Science) was first introduced by Goodchild in 1992. Cartography was formed in three historical periods: from the ancient times to the Renaissance, from the midsixteenth to the mid-twentieth century, and since the midtwentieth century. The map, however, from its inception was the system, despite its analogue form. Changing technologies in cartography to digital resulted in the fact that digital maps are understood as specific models of space The paper is a part of the Research Project NN 526 064 340 Chair of Geomatics, AGH – University of Science and Technology, Krakow GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 ADAM LINSENBARTH1 StAGeS oF GeoinForMAtion eVoLUtion reLAteD to tHe territorieS DeScriBeD in tHe BiBLe – FroM tHe 3rD MiLLenniUM B.c. to MoDern tiMeS Key words: Bible, geoinformation, geography, cartography, history Abstract The paper presents consecutive stages of the evolution of geoinformation related to the territories of the events described in the Bible. Two geoinformation sources are presented: the Bible and non-Bible sources. In the Bible there is much, often some highly detailed information regarding terrain topography. The oldest non-Bible sources are incorporated in the ancient documents, which were discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Some of them are related to the 3rd millennium B.C. The further stages are related to the onomasticons and itineraries written by travellers and pilgrims to the Holy Land. The most famous onomasticons include: onomasticons prepared by bishop Eusebius from Caesarea and those prepared by St. Jerome. One of the oldest maps of Palestine’s territory is the so-called mosaic map of Madaba dated to 565. In the 15th century several Bible maps were edited. The most rapid evolution occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the world famous cartographers such as Mercator and Ortelius edited several maps of Palestine’s territory. Cartographers from several European countries edited more than 6,000 maps presenting the Biblical territories and Biblical events. Modern maps, based on detailed topographical surveys, were edited in the second half of the 19th and 20th centuries. ETAPY ROZWOJU GEOINfORMACJI O TERENACH BIBLIJNYCH – OD III TYSIĄCLECIA PRZED CHR. DO CZASÓW WSPÓŁCZESNYCH Słowa kluczowe: Biblia, geoinformacja, geografia, kartografia, historia Abstrakt W artykule przedstawiono kolejne etapy rozwoju geoinformacji dotyczącej terenów biblijnych. Omówiono dwa źródła informacji, a mianowicie geoinformacje biblijne i pozabiblijne. W tekstach biblijnych można znaleźć wiele, często bardzo detalicznych informacji topograficznych. Najstarsze źródła pozabiblijne, to starożytne dokumenty odnalezione na 1 Institute of Geodesy and Cartography 18 ADAM LINSENBARTH terenach Egiptu i Mezopotamii. Niektóre z nich pochodzą z trzeciego milenium przed Chr. Kolejnym etapem geoinformacji były onomastikony oraz dzienniki podróży pisane przez podróżników i pielgrzymów do Ziemi Świętej. Do najbardziej znanych należy onomastikon sporządzony przez biskupa Euzebiusza z Cezarei oraz onomastikon św. Hieronima. Do jednych z najstarszych map Palestyny należy mozaikowa mapa odnaleziona na posadzce kościoła w Madabie pochodząca z roku 565. Szybki rozwój kartografii biblijnej nastąpił w wieku XVI i XVI, kiedy to słynni kartografowie Mercator i Ortelius opracowali wiele map Palestyny. Kartografowie z wielu krajów Europy, w ciągu minionych stuleci, opracowali ponad 6 tysięcy map biblijnych przedstawiających terytoria i wydarzenia biblijne. Nowoczesne mapy, oparte na pomiarach topograficznych, zaczęto wydawać w drugiej połowie XIX wieku oraz w wieku XX. 1. introduction The area described in the Bible covers all those places where events presented in the Old Testament and in the New Testament occurred. It is, therefore, a vast area stretching from the east to the west of ancient Mesopotamia to Italia, and from the north to the south between the area of modern Turkey and Egypt (Rainey, 2002). The events described in the Old Testament took place within the areas called the fertile Crescent, whose north-eastern arm was made up by Mesopotamia, lying in the bifurcation of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, and its south arm was made up by the territories of modern Israel and Egypt. The central part of the fertile Crescent is the area of ancient Palestine, where most of the events presented in the Old Testament and in the New Testament occurred (Linsenbarth, 2007). The events described in the New Testament, related mostly to missionary journeys of St. Paul the Apostle, and covered additionally the territories of modern Turkey, Greece and Italy. The areas covered by Biblical events constitute an ideal example illustrating the development of broadly understood spatial information systems (Linsenbarth, 2008b, Linsenbarth 2010a). It results from both geopolitical and geographic locations of this area, but also from the fact that for many years geographers, historians and cartographers have focused their attention on this exceptional part of our world. It should be noted that although the concept of geoinformation in its literal meaning was unknown in the antiquity, yet the first pieces of information describing geographical space were recorded employing techniques known in those times. 3. the oldest sources of non-Biblicale information Undoubtedly, maps drawn in ancient Mesopotamia should be counted among the oldest geoinformation sources. They were maps carved in clay, similarly to the majority of Mesopotamian documents. The map drawing was executed on clay tablets with a sharp triangle-end stylus. In Nuzi, located in north-eastern Iraq, a map carved towards the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. was excavated. The map shows an estate belonging to Arzala (Metger, 1997). One of two other maps found in Nippur, in the south of Iraq, shows a drawing of the town itself as well as of nearby canals; the other one presents the boundaries of twelve estates and the names of their owners. These maps may be well considered to be the first cadastral maps. Probably, similar maps existed in other areas of the Middle East. Many oldest sources of geoinformation are those written down in various kinds of documents that were found in the territories of Egypt (Aharoni et al., 2002). Inscriptions related to the Palestinian territories found on the tombs at Abydos belong to the oldest ones. They give a description of five war expeditions during the reign of Pharaoh Pepi I (2390-2361 B.C.) to the land called “The Land of Sand-Dwellers” (Aharoni et al., 2002). This name was used to refer to the area east of Egypt. In these inscriptions, among other things, campaigns in the coastal belt in the area of Acre in the Jezreel Valley were described. Also, the promontory of (Karmel) Carmel is quite adequately compared to a nose of an antelope. Much information related to the description of Palestine was given in the so-called Execration Texts from the 19th century B.C., written on clay figurines found in Saqqara in Egypt. In the GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 EWA KRZYWICKA-BLUM1 USABLe FUnctionS oF MoDern MApS Key words: map functions, computer maps Abstract Modern maps created with the application of GIS technology using special techniques and programmes adequate for spatial information systems are, in comparison to their analogue counterparts, of better model qualities, which is obtained by separating their practical functions. The cognitive function of maps is the main priority. The shape of a map is a result of the applied technology, yet the maps developed using many technical instruments are not always the best ones or graphically correct. There have been many beautiful maps of landscape attempting to show different aspects of landscapes and the results of analyses of multifactorial phenomena and processes. fUNKCJE UŻYTKOWE WSPÓŁCZESNYCH MAP Słowa kluczowe: funkcje map, mapy komputerowe Abstrakt Mapy tworzone w warunkach nowoczesnej techniki komputerowej, technologii i organizacji właściwej systemom informacji przestrzennej, cechuje podwyższenie, w stosunku do analogowych, własności modelowych uzyskuje się to dzięki rozdzieleniu funkcji praktycznych. Walory poznawcze mapy stanowią, w całym rozwoju kartografii wartości priorytetowe. Postać mapy jest wynikiem zastosowanej technologii i nie zawsze mapy opracowane w interaktywnym procesie są graficznie poprawne. Pojawiają się nowe ujęcia treści map krajobrazowych i bardzo piękne propozycje ujęć wyników analiz wieloczynnikowych zjawisk i procesów. 1 Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 DARIUSZ GOTLIB1 MoBiLe MApS – MoDeLLinG oF cArtoGrApHic preSentAtion Key words: mobile cartography, mobile maps, mobile GIS, geovisualization, navigation applications, LBS Abstract The article focuses on the cartographic design aspects of mobile navigation and location applications. The relationship between the conceptual model of spatial data and the cartographic presentation model is discussed. An example of a formal description of cartographic presentation that uses the concepts: partial geocomposition, cartographic information transmission unit, cartographic event, geovisualization window and elementary geovisualization is presented. The paper shows potential benefits of applying the proposed methodology, primarily the ability to create a description of cartographic presentation, which is independent of specific technologies used by the applications of different manufacturers. MAPY MOBILNE – MODELOWANIE PREZENTACJI KARTOGRAfICZNEJ Słowa kluczowe: kartografia mobilna, mapy mobilne, mobilny GIS, geowizualizacja, aplikacje nawigacyjne. LBS Abstrakt W artykule zwrócono uwagę na kartograficzne aspekty projektowania mobilnych aplikacji nawigacyjnych i lokalizacyjnych. Pokazano zależności pomiędzy modelem pojęciowym danych przestrzennych a modelem prezentacji kartograficznej. Przedstawiono przykład formalnego opisu prezentacji kartograficznej wykorzystującego pojęcia: geokompozycja składowa, jednostka przekazu kartograficznego, zdarzenie kartograficzne, okno geowizualizacji, geowizualizacja elementarna. Omówiono potencjalne korzyści wynikające ze stosowania omawianej metodyki, przede wszystkim możliwość tworzenia opisu (definicji) prezentacji kartograficznych niezależnego od konkretnych technologii poszczególnych producentów aplikacji. 1 Department of Cartography, faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 ZBIGNIEW SZCZERBOWSKI1 GeoLoGicAL AnD MininG conDitionS oF DiStUrBAnceS in tHe GeoiD coUrSe on tHe eXAMpLe oF tHe reGion oF inoWrocłAW2 Abstract Problems of modelling of geoid and quasi-geoid course are usually considered in Polish literature in the context of the expected accuracy, which enables the implementation of satellite techniques for altitude measurements with accuracy comparable to the geometric levelling. The difficulties that are associated with this modelling are usually referenced to the mountainous areas, i.e. where given the significant denivelation of the terrain, the course of geoid or quasi-geoid surface is varied. It appears that the landform features are not the only factors disturbing the course of the above mentioned surface. This paper shows the difficulties in modelling the quasi-geoid in the area of Inowrocław, where considering the large changes in the gravitational field, land survey results may give a false picture of its course. The cause for these changes is geological (deposit of salt domes) and mining (high concentration of voids) conditions. In this case, knowledge of the geological situation is important in terms of how to implement surveying for precise, centimetre course of geoid or quasigeoid. On the basis of the work of surveying, a quasi-geoid model for the region of Inowrocław was presented. GEOLOGICZNE I GÓRNICZE UWARUNKOWANIA ZABURZEń PRZEBIEGU GEOIDY NA PRZYKŁADZIE REJONU INOWROCŁAWIA Abstrakt Problematyka modelowania przebiegu geoidy lub quasi-geoidy rozpatrywana jest zwykle w literaturze krajowej w kontekście oczekiwanych dokładności, które umożliwiłyby realizację pomiarów wysokościowych technikami satelitarnymi o dokładnościach porównywalnych z niwelacją geometryczną. Trudności, jakie związane są z tym modelowaniem odnoszone są zwykle do obszarów górzystych, tj. takich gdzie z uwagi na znaczną deniwelację terenu przebieg powierzchni geoidy lub quasi-geoidy jest zróżnicowany. Okazuje się, że ukształtowanie terenu nie jest jednym czynnikiem zaburzającym przebieg ww. powierzchni. W przedstawionej pracy wskazano na trudności w modelowaniu quasi-geoidy w rejonie Inowrocławia, gdzie z uwagi na duże zmiany w polu siły ciężkości wyniki pomiarów geodezyjnych mogą dawać nieprawdziwy obraz jej przebiegu. Przyczyną tych zmian są uwarunkowania geologiczne (wysadowe złoże soli) i górnicze (duża koncentracja pustek poeksploatacyjnych). W tym przypadku wiedza o sytuacji geologicznej jest istotna z punktu widzenia sposobu realizacji prac geodezyjnych dla uzyskania precyzyjnego, centymetrowego przebiegu geoidy lub quasi-geoidy. Na podstawie wykonanych prac geodezyjnych przedstawiony został model quasi-geoidy dla rejonu Inowrocławia. 1 AGH University of Science and Technology. faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering, Mickiewicz Avenue 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland 2 The study was carried out in the framework of AGH-UST research project: 11.11.150.195. GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 ROBERT OLSZEWSKI1 tHe roLe AnD pLAce oF cArtoGrApHY in tHe DeVeLopMent oF tHe SpAtiAL inForMAtion inFrAStrUctUre Key words: cartographic modelling, spatial information infrastructure Abstract Hundreds of various spatial databases and maps developed using those databases were created in Poland and abroad in the past decade. The majority of them were created ad hoc, in relation to implementation of current demands of particular institutions or organisations. Thus, the side effect of rapid development of geoinformation was increasing organisational, methodological and conceptual chaos. Adoption and successive implementation of resolutions of the EU INSPIRE Directive, as well as the Polish Act on the Spatial Information Infrastructure was the partial solution of the discussed issues. However, the legal acts of high grade specify only general rules of creation of the geoinformation infrastructure. The development of modern and functional spatial, reference and thematic databases requires detailed determination of a conceptual model of particular databases, the ways of their population, utilisation and processing of data stored in those databases. However, legislative activity is not the most important part of that process; appropriate understanding of surrounding geographic reality, resulting in the development of correct cartographic models, implemented in the form of spatial databases, is far more important. Therefore, after the period of rapid technological development and fascination of modern information solutions, the deep methodological reflection is necessary. ROLA I MIEJSCE KARTOGRAfII W KSZTAŁTOWANIU INfRASTRUKTURY INfORMACJI PRZESTRZENNEJ Słowa kluczowe: modelowanie kartograficzne, infrastruktura informacji przestrzennej Abstrakt W minionym dziesięcioleciu powstało, zarówno na świecie, jak i w Polsce, setki różnego rodzaju baz danych przestrzennych i opracowywanych na ich podstawie map. Większość z nich była tworzona ad hoc w związku z realizacją bieżących potrzeb danej instytucji czy organizacji. Skutkiem ubocznym gwałtownego rozwoju geoinformacji stał się zatem narastający chaos organizacyjny, metodyczny i koncepcyjny. Częściowym rozwiązaniem tego problemu stało się 1 Department of Cartography, faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw University of Technology 58 ROBERT OLSZEWSKI przyjęcie i sukcesywne wdrażanie zapisów unijnej dyrektywy INSPIRE i polskiej ustawy o infrastrukturze informacji przestrzennej. Akty prawne wysokiej rangi określają jednak tylko ogólne zasady tworzenia infrastruktury geoinformacyjnej. Do budowy nowoczesnych i funkcjonalnych baz danych przestrzennych o charakterze referencyjnym i tematycznym niezbędne jest bowiem szczegółowe określenie modelu koncepcyjnego poszczególnych baz, sposobu ich zasilania, wykorzystania oraz przetwarzania zgromadzonych w nich danych. Najistotniejszym elementem tego procesu nie jest zatem działanie legislacyjne, lecz właściwe zrozumienie otaczającej nas rzeczywistości geograficznej, przekładające się na utworzenie poprawnego modelu kartograficznego realizowanego w postaci bazy danych przestrzennych. Po okresie gwałtownego rozwoju technologicznego i fascynacji nowoczesnymi rozwiązaniami informacyjnymi, niezbędna jest zatem głęboka refleksja metodyczna i koncepcyjna poprzedzająca dalsze działania wdrożeniowe. 1. introduction When in the 1960s the term “global village” was used for the first time to describe cross-border economic, demographic and political processes it was hard to believe that half a century later, in the era of the ubiquitous Internet, this metaphor is no longer merely a means of literary expression and has become a true illustration of globalization (McLuhan, 1962). One of the essential elements of a global process of informatization is to build regional and intercontinental geoinformation infrastructures. One component of this process is the creation of spatial databases and visualization of their data. Thus modelling of geographic information in a supraregional scale has become a subject of not only cartographic but also legal, social and information technology works. In this context, Prof. Michael Wood’s message “The 21st century world - no future without cartography” (2001), delivered at a conference of the International Cartographic Association in Beijing is particularly important. former President of ICA notes that although the name itself was a relatively recent discipline, cartography is an expression of one of the oldest impulses shaping the humanity - efforts to map the surrounding world. Wood argues that the traditional “cartographic dichotomy” - the classic division between creators and users of cartographic work - is now being replaced by ‘linguistic analogy’ denoting the full use of the language of cartography by the general public. Just as knowledge of a language does not only allow us to read existing studies but also to write them, so a basic knowledge of cartographic methods not only allows the use of maps, but also their co-creation and sharing for instance in the form of websites. It should be noted that in the process of universal “mapping of the world” understood in this way, the role of professional cartographers would be not so much to create the resulting map compositions but rather widespread education on methods of presentation and the correct modelling of the reference information in spatial databases, which are canvas for thematic and trade studies. 2. cartographic modelling Modelling and imaging of the surrounding geographic area has a tradition much older than the formal cartographic techniques (Peters, 1978). Dated at tens of thousands years old totemic paintings on the walls of the cave of Lascaux (french Aquitaine), a product of Palaeolithic art, indicate the significance of spatial relationships in learning and exploration of the world. The development of forms of human communication through shared learning of space was for our ancestors not so much religious art or applied art as just a prosaic visual art of survival. According to Peters (1978) cognitive maps can be an important factor in the intellectual evolution of hominids. Throughout human history, our external conditions of life have undergone significant change, however, what has not changed is the way the mind works, the way we become involved in our interpretations of reality, how we identify ourselves with limited aspects of ourselves, and how our commitment and fears determine our actions. It can therefore be concluded that the development of the ability of the mapping of the sur- GEOINfORMATICA POLONICA 11: 2012 ZBIGNIEW KASINA1 tHe AnALYSiS oF tHe eFFectiVeneSS oF SiMULtAneoUS inVerSion oF tUrninG AnD HeAD WAVeS FirSt BreAKS – MoDeL StUDY2 Key words: geophysics, seismic methods, refraction tomography, traveltime tomography Abstract In the presented paper the model data were used to analyse the effectiveness of simultaneous inversion of the turning and head waves first breaks in comparison with the effectiveness of the inversion of only first breaks of turning waves or head waves. The analysis was undertaken for the gradient velocity models of the near surface layer with the low velocity anomaly and for the CDP aquisition. The effect of the numerical ray tracing on the traveltime calculations and inversion results was estimated taking into account the wave equation modeling of seismic records. The effect of the errors of the starting velocity field in the process of inversion as well as the effect of spatial smothing of resulting velocity fields were considered too. The analysis confirmed some improvement in the imaging of the near surface velocity anomalies when we use simultaneous inversion of the turning and head waves first breaks. ANALIZA EfEKTYWNOŚCI JEDNOCZESNEJ INWERSJI PIERWSZYCH WSTĄPIEń fALI REfRAGOWANEJ I CZOŁOWEJ – STUDIUM MODELOWE Słowa kluczowe geofizyka, metody sejsmiczne, tomografia refrakcyjna, tomografia czasów przebiegu Abstrakt W przedstawionej pracy wykorzystano dane modelowe do analizy efektywności jednoczesnej inwersji pierwszych wstąpień fal czołowych i refragowanych w porównaniu do efektywności inwersji tylko pierwszych wstąpień fali refragowanej lub czołowej. Analizę podjęto dla gradientowych modeli strefy przypowierzchniowej z niskoprędkościową anomalią dla University of Science and Technology AGH, faculty of Geology, Geophysics & Environment Protection, Department of Geophysics, Cracow, Poland 2 The paper was prepared within the project of MNiSW no. N N525 168735 realized in the period 2008 - 2011 in the Department of Geophysics, contract AGH no. 11.11.140.769 1 68 ZBIGNIEW KASINA akwizycji metody pokryć wielokrotnych. Oszacowano wpływ numerycznego trasowania promieni na wyniki obliczeń czasów przebiegu i inwersji uwzględniając wyniki modelowania rekordów sejsmicznych z równania falowego. Rozważano także wpływ błędów startowego pola prędkości w procesie inwersji, jak również wpływ przestrzennego wygładzania wynikowych pól prędkości. Analiza potwierdziła pewną poprawę w odwzorowaniu anomalii prędkościowych strefy przypowierzchniowej, gdy wykorzystujemy jednoczesną inwersję pierwszych wstąpień fal czołowych i refragowanych. introduction Defining the velocity fields in the near surface layer is an essential stage of seismic data processing. Its results determine the accuracy of the field static corrections calculations and the good quality of resulting seismic sections. The correct imaging of velocity fields in the near surface layer is very also important when we construct the shallow velocity part of migration velocity model. The problem of the static corrections estimation comes into special prominence in the commonly used vibrator method of land seismic acquisition when often the only source of the information about low velocity layer are the traveltimes of first breaks on seismic records. Three approaches are used in this case. In the first approach the times of first breaks are treated as the arrival times of head waves connected with the succeding refractors of low velocity layer. These traveltimes (head waves hodographes) are interpreted using refraction, well known methods yielding an approximate layered velocity model of the near surface medium. To improve the results of refraction interpretation we can apply the generalized linear inversion (GLI) using the well known Hampson-Russell program (Hampson, Russell 1984). The second approach treats the traveltimes of the first breaks as the arrival times of turning waves propagating in the gradient medium of low velocity layer. The velocity fields are estimated by means of tomographic inversion in this case (Zhu et al. 1992, Stefani 1995, Lanz et al. 1998, Zhu 2002). In the third approach we use in the process of inversion the first breaks of head waves generated by the refractor in the bottom of low velocity layer. Each of the above described approaches has its own limitations. In the first case we can estimate only layered model with constant velocites in each layer. It is difficult to recover the local velocity heterogeneities in the indi- vidual layers. In the second case the tomographic inversion of the traveltimes of turning wave with dominating ray trajectories deviated from vertical and horizonal directions yields in many cases the relative weaker horizontal resolution. In the third case the tomographic inversion of the traveltimes of head waves with dominating vertical ray trajectories characterizes of weak vertical resolution manifesting in smearing velocity anomalies in vertical direction toward surface. In the case of the gradient medium with local velocity anomalies placed above the strong refractor none of the described solutions create the possiblity of the optimal estimation of the velocity fields. The solution may be the simultaneous inversion of the turning wave first breaks connected with gradient low velocity layer and head wave first breaks connected with the strong refractor in the bottom of near surface layer. The analysis of the effectiveness of such a approach based on the model data was undertaken in the presented paper. 1. construction of the seismogeological models of low velocity models and the generation of theoretical traveltimes of the turning and head waves for the purpose of the model calculations realized for the case of turning waves, the gradient models (with positive vertical velocity gradient) without anomalies and with low velocity shallow anomaly were constructed. for the purpose of the model calculations realized for the case of head waves the refractor was placed in the bottom of the gradient medium. The gradient model is presented in fig. 1. The velocity anomaly had the dimensions: width 300 m, height 20 m. The depth of the top of anomaly was 10 m and the velocity inside anomaly was 600 m/s. The velocity outside the anomaly was increasing from the